Maria P. P. Root

Maria P. P. Root (born September 13, 1955)[1] is a clinical psychologist, educator, and public speaker based in Seattle, Washington. Her areas of work include multiracial families, multiracial identity, cultural competence, trauma, workplace harassment, and disordered eating. She is an international authority on mixed heritage identity, credited with publishing the first contemporary work on mixed-race people. She has presented lectures and training in various countries, both in and outside of academia.

Root has edited two books on multiracial people and produced the Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People.[2][3] The U.S. Census referred to these two texts in the deliberations that resulted in a "check one or more races" format to the race question for the 2000 census.[4] In 1997, she received the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest.[5]

Root is a former president of the Washington State Psychological Association.[2] She has served as Chair of the APA Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest[6] and as a member-at-large on the Board of APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues).[2] Currently she has her own private practice. She has served on the advisory council of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans and the board of advisors of the Mavin Foundation.[7][8] She co-founded the Journal for Critical Mixed Race Studies[9] in 2011.[10]

  1. ^ Rodkey, Elissa. "Profile of Maria Primitiva Paz Root". In Rutherford, A. (ed.). Psychology's Feminist Voices Digital Archive. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. ^ a b c "Maria P.P. Root, PhD". APA Monitor. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  3. ^ "Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-13.
  4. ^ "MAVIN Foundation Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2015-02-24.
  5. ^ "Awards for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest: Maria P. P. Root". American Psychologist. 53 (4): 398–401. 1998. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.53.4.398.
  6. ^ "Preparing psychologists for a new world". APA Monitor. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  7. ^ "AMEA Board of Directors". ameasite.org. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  8. ^ http://www.mavin.net/about/board.html
  9. ^ "About Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies". escholarship.org. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  10. ^ "Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies". Critical Mixed Race Studies. Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2014-01-05.